Generating checksums—cryptographic hashes such as MD5 or SHA-256 functions for files is hardly anything new and one of the most efficient means to ascertain the integrity of a file, or to check if two ...

A project I'm working on is for a mixed Windows / Mac environment, migrating from NetWare (with AFP services) to Windows with ExtremeZ-IP. We've been using md5summer on Windows, which works great for ...

Any idea what purpose including an MD5 Sum file within a zip file that you're downloading serves? I understand the algorithmic checking to make sure the file hasn't been modified. But I just ...